Martin Lehnert, (1910-1992)
Obituary

The Martin Lehnert Prize, donated by the former president of the German Shakespeare Society, is intended to honour students or young academics who have made outstanding contributions to the work and impact of William Shakespeare, his contemporaries or the culture of Shakespeare’s time, its reception and/or communication.

The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding final thesis (Magister, Master’s, Staatsexamen), a dissertation or a documented student project (theatre production, exhibition, etc.). The prize money is €2,000 for a dissertation, €500 for a thesis and €500 for a student project. The prize is aimed in particular at the departments of English, German and Theatre Studies.

Nominations can be made for German or English-language papers written or submitted at universities in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. Work produced at universities in non-German-speaking countries by young academics from Germany, Austria or Switzerland can generally also be nominated. The academic supervisors of the respective work are authorised to make nominations.

Prize winners since 1997